If my count is in the neighborhood, 68 vets didn't re-register in 2007, 101 in 2006, and 144 in 2005. Hovering around a 90%
retention rate. Of course some of those teams just took a year off and did reappear the following season.
Each year the number of rookies keeps climbing and the number of veteran teams lost to us keeps dropping.
We're about 70 registered rookies ahead of this same time last year. That will likely translate into an unusually large increase this year in the total number of rookies (we might hope). For the past three seasons FRC has gained ~40 more new teams over the gain of the year before (2005-208, 2006-243, 2007-286).
Predictions for fun anyone?